Being healthy

I am trying this new thing. It's called being healthy! Have you heard of it? Haha. I'm terrible at eating healthy. I never know what to cook. I love Dr. Pepper, more so than I should and I hate, and I mean HATE, exercising.

That being said, I have gained weight since getting married. I'm not proud of it, but I have. Dustin and I love being at home, relaxing, watching a movie or something of that nature. And we also like living in the country, which is not where we live. So staying in our little basement apartment gives us the illusion that we aren't surrounded by a bunch of people. :)

On top of this, I also lack the motivation and the accountability of not working out. I would rather sit on my butt than get up and work out. I'm lazy. And I'm a procrastinator which means I'll put off working out until its too late to work out, so then I just won't. My friend is probably just as bad at working out as I am, and I say this in the nicest way possible, but its true. :) We both lack the motivation to do it by ourselves, but we don't want to spend the gas money to go anywhere to workout together. We're cheap, what can I say?

Now that I have explained my issues with being healthy and why I have gained the weight, let me fill you in on my brilliant plan! It plays on two parts of my problem, as well as on my friends, being cheap and not being held accountable. I wrote up a contract that my friend and I both signed. We are to work out Monday through Friday and if we miss a day we have Saturday to make up said day. If we neglect to get our workouts in, at the end of the week, we have to put a dollar in the others jar for each workout we missed. Brilliant, right? I'm most definitely being held accountable and I surely don't want to pay a dollar for not getting off my butt for 20-30 minutes. That's just ridiculous.

Anyway, here is a what our contract says. I tried to make it as legal as I could (which isn't very legal because I know nothing about contracts. Ha!).

Workout Contract

We, Katharine Marshall and Tiffany Brown, enter into this contract, being of sound mind on February 4th, 2013 to help improve our health and foster a lifetime of healthy choices. 

Schedule is as follows- 

Monday: 20 minute workout

Tuesday: 30 minute workout

Wednesday: 20 minute workout

Thursday: 30 minute workout

Friday: 20 minute workout

Saturday: Make Up day 

Sunday: Rest 

Failure to meet this schedule, or the failure to make up the amount of time missed on your make up day that is Saturday, is payable to the other party in the form of one dollar ($1) put into their official workout jar. 

Workout is void if, 

- an affiliate fails to log their time.

- the time was not made up within the same week.

Each party is exempt of workout of the day for these reasons only, unless discussed and agreed upon by both parties. 

- Sickness as serious, but no less than throwing up, fever over 99.8 degrees, or severe cough which limits breathing.

- Debilitating headaches in which working out would be miserable, if not impossible.

I am hoping this will work for me. Let me know if you have any good ideas that might work for me!